A 32‐Year Follow‐up of Lunate Excision for Kienbock's DiseaseA Case Report and a Review of Results from Excision and Other Treatment Methods
作者:
Michael Wheatley,
Stephan Finical,
期刊:
Annals of Plastic Surgery
(OVID Available online 1996)
卷期:
Volume 37,
issue 3
页码: 322-325
ISSN:0148-7043
年代: 1996
出版商: OVID
数据来源: OVID
摘要:
Lunate excision alone is seldom utilized in the management of Kienbock's disease due to concerns about progressive carpal collapse following removal of this central carpal bone. We report a 32-year follow-up of a patient who underwent lunate excision only for treatment of Kienbock's disease with a successful outcome. Although lunate excision is thought to be associated with a high failure rate, a review of the literature suggests that success rates following lunate excision are comparable to those reported for other more conventional techniques such as radial shortening, ulnar lengthening, limited carpal fusions, and proximal row carpectomy. The current perception that lunate excision is associated with a high failure rate is not supported in the literature. As such, it may not be appropriate to assign this operation to the category of “historical interest only.”
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